KKingery
Member
Just a short note on a painful lesson I learned tonight. I had started turning a dyed, stabalized BOB blank for a Gent Jr. The blank has some wicked holes in it, and I remembered seeing a post about using a CA sanding slurry technique to fill voids. I thought - what a perfect blank to try that on!
All was going well, until the sandpaper burned through. depositing a hot molten glob of CA on my finger! It took all of about 2 seconds for this to happen. The result? - A wicked burn.
I'm sure I missed something when I read about the idea of using a CA sanding slurry. This is in no way, anyone's fault BUT MY OWN.
I may have been sanding at too high a speed, or was using too much pressure on the paper or whatever. I just wanted to share this painful lesson for any newbie (or oldbie??)
I believe the technique worked, but I won't know for sure until tomorrow when the throbbing pain goes away and I return to the shop!
Just wanted to share this story, to hopefully prevent the same accident from happening to anyone else. - Thanks, Ken.
All was going well, until the sandpaper burned through. depositing a hot molten glob of CA on my finger! It took all of about 2 seconds for this to happen. The result? - A wicked burn.
I'm sure I missed something when I read about the idea of using a CA sanding slurry. This is in no way, anyone's fault BUT MY OWN.
I may have been sanding at too high a speed, or was using too much pressure on the paper or whatever. I just wanted to share this painful lesson for any newbie (or oldbie??)
I believe the technique worked, but I won't know for sure until tomorrow when the throbbing pain goes away and I return to the shop!
Just wanted to share this story, to hopefully prevent the same accident from happening to anyone else. - Thanks, Ken.